Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...

Kyushu University professor Kosuke Morita, head of a team of scientists who discovered element 113 — now named nihonium — points to the superheavy synthetic element on a periodic table at a news ...

Four synthetic elements on the periodic table received their new names and atomic symbols, chemistry’s international standards organization announced Wednesday. The International Union of Pure and ...

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New York: The inorganic chemistry division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has reviewed and considered proposed names of three new elements of the periodic table -- ...

Creating a superheavy element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching ...

The periodic table contains a wide array of elements, numbered from one (hydrogen) to 118 (oganesson), with each number representing the number of protons stored within an atom's nucleus. Scientists ...

It's time to update your copy of the periodic table. Four new elements discovered in recent years have now been named, pending final approval by the international group of scientists in charge of the ...

Different elements exist on Earth, each with distinct physical and chemical properties based on their atomic structure. To ...

As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, a Michigan State University professor probes the table's limits in a recent Nature Physics Perspective.